[PATCH] clk-divider: Fix READ_ONLY when divider > 1

[Heiko Stübner]

Hi James,

Am Freitag, 14. November 2014, 15:32:09 schrieb James Hogan:
> Commit 79c6ab509558 (clk: divider: add CLK_DIVIDER_READ_ONLY flag) in
> v3.16 introduced the CLK_DIVIDER_READ_ONLY flag which caused the
> recalc_rate() and round_rate() clock callbacks to be omitted.
> 
> However using this flag has the unfortunate side effect of causing the
> clock recalculation code when a clock rate change is attempted to always
> treat it as a pass-through clock, i.e. with a fixed divide of 1, which
> may not be the case. Child clock rates are then recalculated using the
> wrong parent rate.
> 
> Therefore instead of dropping the recalc_rate() and round_rate()
> callbacks, alter clk_divider_bestdiv() to always report the current
> divider as the best divider so that it is never altered.
> 
> For me the read only clock was the system clock, which divided the PLL
> rate by 2, from which both the UART and the SPI clocks were divided.
> Initial setting of the UART rate set it correctly, but when the SPI
> clock was set, the other child clocks were miscalculated. The UART clock
> was recalculated using the PLL rate as the parent rate, resulting in a
> UART new_rate of double what it should be, and a UART which spewed forth
> garbage when the rate changes were propagated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan at imgtec.com>
> Cc: Mike Turquette <mturquette at linaro.org>
> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> Cc: Thomas Abraham <thomas.ab at samsung.com>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
> Cc: Max Schwarz <max.schwarz at online.de>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+

Yep, your solution is much better I think.
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>


Heiko